Button.



A. H. GOLDEN.

BUTTON.

APPLxcATloN HLED JULY 31.1918.

l 2297,315. Patente-d Mar. 18, 1919.

ATTORNEY STATES BATEN'I FFIE,

BUTTON.

Application led July 31, 1918.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM II. GOLDEN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at New York city, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in buttons, one of the objects being to provide a button having a shank for detachable securement to garments, special lockingmeans for the shank being provided.

I will now proceed to describe my invention in detail, the novel features of which, I will point out in the claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part hereof, wherein Figure l represents an edge view in elevation of my improved button, the hook being in position for attachment to the fabric;

Fig. 2, a vertical cross section, enlarged, through the same in normal or fastening position, the shank and tail beinof in side elevation and the remainder of the hook broken away; and

Fig. 3 represents in detail a top plan view of the base plate and shank shown in Fig. 2.

A preferably convex cap A and flat base plate B constitute the head of the button, which is attached to the fabric of any garment by a suitable spring pressed device, preferably a pointed hook C, which occupies the inclined position shown in Fig. l for more conveniently catching into the fabric, and thereafter is turned pivotally into the position shown by the shank of said hook in Fig. 2, for securely holding said button head to said fabric. The button head is of course passed through any ordinary button-hole of an opposite flap or other part of a garment in the usual way. The shank of said hook has, angularly bent therefrom and preferably at right angles thereto, a rigid tail-piece C, which is provided with lateral trunnions D, having their bearings in recesses b of the base plate B. The trunnions and bearings Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 18, 1919.

Serial No. 247,515.

periyiit the pivotal movement aforesaid of the The middle part of said base plate is struck up to form an elongated spring plate E, integral with the base plate B, but severed therefrom at its sides by narrow slits. When the attaching hook is in its inclined position, for catching into the fabric, this spring plate bears on the edge of said tail piece, holding the hook in such position. When the hook, aft-er entering the fabric, is moved into the holding position, the said spring plate bears on the flat surface of the tail piece, as in Fig. 2. In either case the pressure is great enough to prevent accidental displacement; but a veryA moderate force applied by hand will turn the hook pivotally from either position to the other.

This button is complete in itself, requiring no separate or separable base socket or other part as is common in studs, collar buttons and the like. Its parts are all permanently held together and it is at all times ready for attachment to a fabric without the assistance of any other device. It may be readily removed by reversing the procedure above stated and drawing the oblique hook out of the fabric.

What I claim as my invention is:

A button-head comprising a cap and a flat plate, the latter having a part struck up to form a spring integral with said plate and being provided with a pair of bearing recesses, in combination with means for attachment to a. fabric, said means including a lat-ch having an angularly bent tail piece provided with a pair of trunnions arranged to be mounted pivotally in said recesses, said spring operating to hold said latch in either one of two positions.

Signed at New York city, N. Y., this 30th day of July, 1918.

l ABRAHAM H. GOLDEN.

Witnesses MAURICE BLOCK, EDWARD A. JARvis.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

